I have been trying to resist posting to this thread, but you keep tempting me.
I learned BASIC on an HP 2000E system (2100A computer 32KB of RAM, 5M hard drive). I learned Fortran on an HP DOS-M system (the same 2100A hardware). I learned Assembly language on a PDP-8E with 4KW (12 bits each). I learned COBOL on an IBM System 3 model 15D with a whopping 256KB of RAM. All in the same school year. Sure sounds like a lot now, but it was fun at the time. A couple of years latter I did some Assemble language programming on the System/3, and on an IBM System/7. Bet not many of you have ever heard of a System/7. I also did some Assembly language programming on the 2100A. Now that I think about it I guess it is logical that I like C so much, since I can do most of what I did in Assembly language in C. -----Original Message----- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related questio n... Or a 4Kword PDP-8 (12 bits, and microprogrammable for side effects from every instruction!) . Or my (still functional) Altair with a whopping 512 bytes. -- db ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ferguson, Neale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related questio n... > 16K!? Luxury!! You must have had the Level 2. > > -----Original Message----- > People who never had to write on a TRS-80 with 16K of memory NEVER had to > learn how to cram EVERY last iota of efficiency into their code. >
